Originally Posted by
ClueByFour
I'm curious as to what a laptop would need 8gb of RAM for, that would not be otherwise overly burdened by the nature of laptops to be relatively disk I/O bound?
When it comes to PCs/Laptops, the more memory the better.
You just have to keep in mind, most operations systems (windows 32 bit - xp, etc)... don't utilize more than 3.5 gig...
Your 64 bit OSs will support more.